the aim of this study was to investigate and to compare customers' loyalty in private and public sport clubs of tehran with a descriptive survey and field method. the statistical population of the study included customers of sport clubs in tehran who had participated in sport activities for at least 6 months. based on cluster sampling method, 4 regions out of 22 regions from tehran were ra...

This study aimed to identify organized sports participation patterns and their prevalence from adolescence emerging adulthood, the educational family-related determinants of patterns. Adolescents in Finnish Health Promoting Sports Club (FHPSC) answered a health behaviour questionnaire reported on club at ages 15 19 (N = 609). In dropouts (total 41.05%; females 43.72%; males 36.56%), maintainers...

Minor professional sport in North America includes the many leagues that are not part of “Big Five.” For these leagues, ticket sales, especially season one major sources club revenue. Segmenting customers into homogenous groups is well established as an effective means to render efficient marketing. In addition, market segmentation has been researched a variety contexts; however, further resear...

Customers are overlooked often as a stakeholder group when it comes to assessing board performance. To gain insight into the factors that affect customer perceptions of non-profit board performance, over 20,000 members from 14 different professional, non-profit sporting clubs were surveyed. The results suggest that sporting club boards are evaluated primarily in line with perceptions specifical...

INTRODUCTION A large proportion of children and adolescents participate in organised sport, making community sports clubs a promising setting to support healthy behaviours. To date, however, there have been few interventions conducted in junior sports clubs that have targeted health-promoting practices. The primary aim of this pilot study is to assess the potential effectiveness of an intervent...

BACKGROUND Many factors influence participation in sport and Physical Activity (PA). It is well established that socio-economic status (SES) is a critical factor. There is also growing evidence that there are differences in participation patterns according to residential location. However, little is known more specifically about the relationship of PA participation and frequency of participatio...

While informal sport may appear to be a poor relation of formal sport, participation in is now more popular than organised club sport. The special issue provides an opportunity showcase international leisure studies research which variously explores the meaning and implications as growing form collective activity wider social affordances – strains practices. Editors’ Introduction focuses on way...